diff --git a/core/modules/system/lib/Drupal/system/Tests/Database/FetchTest.php b/core/modules/system/lib/Drupal/system/Tests/Database/FetchTest.php
index d58746d16bc..fe087b599bd 100644
--- a/core/modules/system/lib/Drupal/system/Tests/Database/FetchTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/system/lib/Drupal/system/Tests/Database/FetchTest.php
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ class FetchTest extends DatabaseTestBase {
    * Confirms that we can fetch an entire column of a result set at once.
    */
   function testQueryFetchCol() {
-    $records = array();
     $result = db_query('SELECT name FROM {test} WHERE age > :age', array(':age' => 25));
     $column = $result->fetchCol();
     $this->assertIdentical(count($column), 3, 'fetchCol() returns the right number of records.');